Borrowing Old Home Remedies
Yields Simple Healing
In Many Types Of
Alternative Medicine

Old home remedies is a term used by people and many types of alternative medicine to express this is what grandma or grandpa used to make. Many of those remedies relied on herbs, foods, simple to obtain minerals or in some cases homeopathic remedies.

Decades ago, pharmaceutical drugs as we use today were not even in production yet or just not available to the general public. Because of this scarcity, handed down recipes and remedies from friends and neighbors were the norm for most medical conditions.

Old folk remedies were invented through trial and error and then spread by word of mouth. This was often the most reliable method of finding relief. The old-fashioned country doctor also will admit, most of his "therapies" were discovered while doing his rounds from family to family:home to home. What worked at one place just might work at another. Many of these same principles is what makes up much of alternative therapies in today's society.

As an example, herbal teas are great for the extended relief of many digestive symptoms. But how do you know which tea will be your best solution for the type of upset stomach you can commonly get when your allergies flare up?

Pick which type of situation is the closest for you, give these a try and see if it does not offer you some type of relief.

• Abdominal Cramps and/or Ulcers
  Chamomile tea will usually calm the symptoms when you need an anti-spasmodic and anti-inflammatory. Since it effectively calms the nervous system, use this when your stomach feels stressed.

• Bloating
  Feel like you are the Goodyear Blimp you are so "blown up like a balloon"? Make some fresh gingerroot tea to help relieve the pressure. Ginger root also is good when you have the symptoms of gas, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and morning sickness.

• Flatulence
  Flatulence is just a fancy word for too much gas in (or coming out of) your abdominal cavity. Fennel tea, if used after a meal will help to quiet the storm in your digestive system.

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  Have you been told by your doctor you probably have an irritable bowel? Characteristically, this condition rotates back and forth between constipation and diarrhea and the individual can't seem to figure out which foods are going to cause what.

  In this case, give peppermint tea a try. It will help to relieve the gas, cramps and bloating which commonly accompany IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)

  If you are prone to heartburn though, go easy on the peppermint because it will aggravate the symptoms in some people.

• Frequent Stomach Upsets
  If you know you are prone to frequent indigestion, start the habit of drinking a cup of the tea before each meal or during the meal itself.

  If you only have problems occasionally, then just drink a cup of the tea only as needed.

With the advancement of technology many of these "daily working medications" were pushed aside for the new wave of westernized or allopathic medicine. The practitioner's of this type of medicine relied heavily on drugs and machines to facilitate a return to health. Usually this method initiated a reversal of symptoms which was the answer to a return of good health. Unfortunately this method did not always lead to a cure which often precipitated a return of symptoms at a later date.

Fast forward to today and a growing discontent among people in an industrialized society has brought about a resurgence of inquiries about old home remedies. Even though greater than 75 to 80% of the people on the face of this earth still rely on old home remedies as a treatment of first choice, the people in an industrialized country are also now once again realizing drugs and machines are not always the answer. Books, magazines, newspapers and internet searches are becoming the norm for many families trying to obtain relief from many conditions that westernized medicine just can not seem to give satisfactory results.

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